This years Darwin award winner and runner-up..........

Clanker

"Kory McFarren pleaded no contest last month to a misdemeanour count of mistreatment of a dependent adult.

On Tuesday, a judge sentenced him to six months in jail but granted him probation after the victim, Pam Babcock, asked for leniency.

"She didn't believe that her circumstances were his fault," said Craig Crosswhite, the Ness County Attorney.

Miss Babcock's plight became known in February when Mr McFarren called the Ness County sheriff, expressing concern about his live-in girlfriend. When authorities arrived, they found Miss Babcock physically stuck to the toilet.

Mr McFarren told police Miss Babcock had refused to come out of the bathroom for two years. Medical personnel estimated she had been sitting on the toilet for at least a month and said the seat had adhered to sores on her body.

She is now under the protection of a guardian who was appointed through the legal department at the hospital where she received treatment.

Also on Tuesday, Mr McFarren was sentenced to six months in jail for an unrelated charge of lewd and lascivious behaviour for exposing himself to a teenage neighbour in March. "